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Aiming to reduce the rate of smoking among pregnant women and indigenous Australians, the government’s new anti-smoking campaign has been welcomed by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF). The campaign will run for four weeks with television, radio and print ads ...

A group of nursing students from Victoria University’s St Albans Campus travelled to Vietnam, where they spent two weeks volunteering in some of the most disadvantaged hospitals and orphanages in the country. The 10 students volunteered at Hanoi’s National Hospital ...

Severely agitated emergency department patients are best sedated with a combination of antipsychotic drugs, a study has found. Droperidol or olanzapine in combination with midazolam is fast and effective in sedating aggressive patients and they are less likely to require ...

Nurses at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia will be discharging patients as part of a new trial that is expected to create more efficient health services. Beginning early next year, the trial will see nurses given the responsibility of ...

Changing sectors may be a daunting experience but rest assured nurses are in the driver’s seat, writes Julie Moore With a chronic shortage of nurses and nurse managers in Australia, more and more employers are thinking innovatively about how they ...

Nurses are the key to sustainability in healthcare, according to the recent Greening the Health Sector Policy Think Tank report. Climate and Health Alliance convenor Fiona Armstrong said nurses are demonstrating the willingness and capacity to drive a sustainability movement. ...

A group of nursing students from Victoria University has drawn a lot of positives from a challenging two weeks working in some of the most disadvantaged hospitals and orphanages in Vietnam. The 10 students volunteered at Hanoi’s National Paediatric Hospital, ...

A new study has revealed that patients with benign brain tumours can experience greater distress than those with malignant tumours before radiation therapy. Dr Maria Kangas, lead researcher, said that many people assume that a benign tumour would cause less ...

Working in remote areas has some disadvantages but one of the big pluses is being a valued member of a community. By Linda Belardi Sue Stewart had only planned to stay for six months at Bidyadanga clinic in Western Australia’s ...

Most of us take what we do for granted, and sometimes we need to step back and recognise that we make a difference to the lives of the patients we serve. As I reflected on the day while driving home ...